AT&T Patents

AT&T Inc. provides telecommunications services in the United States and the world. Its subsidiaries provide landline data and voice communications services, as well as wireless voice and data communications services.

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  • Patent number: 11218941
    Abstract: Aspects of the subject disclosure may include, for example, a method including determining according to first information associated with a first wireless access network and second information associated with a second wireless access network, whether to facilitate communication in a geographic area between a first wireless communication device and a communication network via the second wireless access network, and, in turn, directing a second wireless access device of the second wireless access network to facilitate the communication between the first wireless communication device and the communication network, and directing a first wireless access device of the first wireless access network to stop facilitating second communication between the first wireless communication device and the communication network. Other embodiments are disclosed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 18, 2019
    Date of Patent: January 4, 2022
    Assignee: AT&T Intellectual Property I, L.P.
    Inventors: Venson Shaw, Sangar Dowlatkhah
  • Patent number: 11218888
    Abstract: Aspects include determining whether a utilization of wireless spectrum associated with a guaranteed class of traffic in a network is greater than a first threshold, responsive to the determining indicating that the utilization of the wireless spectrum associated with the guaranteed class of traffic is greater than the first threshold, causing an upgrade of a capacity in the network, and responsive to the determining indicating that the utilization of the wireless spectrum associated with the guaranteed class of traffic is not greater than the first threshold: determining a throughput for a non-guaranteed class of traffic for each cell of a plurality of cells of the network, and responsive to determining that the throughput for the non-guaranteed class of traffic for at least one cell of the plurality of cells is less than a second threshold, causing the upgrade of the capacity in the network. Other embodiments are disclosed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 7, 2020
    Date of Patent: January 4, 2022
    Assignee: AT&T Intellectual Property I, L.P.
    Inventors: Gopalakrishnan Meempat, Huahui Wang, Ravi Raina
  • Patent number: 11219051
    Abstract: In a 5G network, a pre-emptive scheduling request (SR) and a pre-emptive buffer status report (BSR) can be used to reduce the latency of data transmissions on the upstream of a multi-hop integrated access and backhaul (IAB) network from the user equipment UE to the IAB-donor node. A centralized unit (CU) can uniformly ensure that the pre-emptive SR/BSR feature is turned on or off across the entire IAB network regardless of which vendor provides the IAB nodes. Additionally, a message can be sent from a gNodeB to the CU to the IAB node to indicate whether the pre-emptive SR/BSR triggering feature is turned on or off.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 15, 2019
    Date of Patent: January 4, 2022
    Assignee: AT&T Intellectual Property I, L.P.
    Inventors: Milap Majmundar, Thomas Novlan
  • Patent number: 11213758
    Abstract: Aspects of the subject disclosure may include, for example, obtaining portions of video content from a video game from video game server(s) associated with a video game provider, selecting a first portion of video content from the portions of the video content, and providing the first portion to device(s) associated with viewer(s). Each device presents the first portion of the video content. Further embodiments include obtaining popularity information from the device(s) according to feedback based on presenting the first portion of the video content to the device(s), determining that the popularity information satisfies a popularity threshold associated with the video content, determining a subject matter corresponding to the first portion of the video content, and identifying a second portion of the video content from the video game to be recorded according to the subject matter. Other embodiments are disclosed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 22, 2020
    Date of Patent: January 4, 2022
    Assignee: AT&T Intellectual Property I, L.P.
    Inventors: David Crawford Gibbon, Jean-Francois Paiement, Lee Begeja, Jianxiong Dong, Tan Xu, Eric Zavesky
  • Patent number: 11218491
    Abstract: The concepts and technologies disclosed herein are directed to security de-escalation for data access. A user device can define a security de-escalation rule. The user device can define a multi-tiered security zone within a user device file system utilized by a memory of the user device. The multi-tiered security zone can include a plurality of security tiers. The user device can identify data for de-escalation in accordance with the security de-escalation rule. The user device can de-escalate the data to generate de-escalated data by storing the data identified for de-escalation in a less secure security tier of the plurality of security tiers of the multi-tiered security zone. The user device can receive a data access request from an external user device. The user device can verify a data access credential contained in the data access request. The user device can provide the de-escalated data to the external user device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 12, 2019
    Date of Patent: January 4, 2022
    Assignee: AT&T Intellectual Property I, L.P.
    Inventors: Joseph Soryal, Naila Jaoude, Dylan C. Reid
  • Patent number: 11218403
    Abstract: Aspects of the subject disclosure may include, for example, embodiments and a method. The method includes iteratively providing messages to each Node Processor. Each Node Processor represents a node of a group of nodes. The iteratively providing of the messages comprises providing first messages. Each first message includes a cost associated with a path of nodes visited by each first message. A selected path is obtained from each node having a lowest cost of a group of common endpoint costs for paths having common endpoints. A next group of messages includes the selected path. The iteratively providing of the messages results in selected paths. Also, the method include determining a target path from a remaining path. Other embodiments are disclosed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 20, 2020
    Date of Patent: January 4, 2022
    Assignees: AT&T Intellectual Property I, L.P., AT&T Mobility II LLC
    Inventors: Sheldon Kent Meredith, William Cottrill, Zachary Meredith
  • Patent number: 11218222
    Abstract: Aspects of the subject disclosure may include, for example, receiving a first optical signal from a first optical network via a first port of the wavelength converter, receiving a second optical signal from a second optical network via a second port of the wavelength converter, modulating the first optical signal with the second light signal to generate a third optical signal, eliminating the first light signal from the third optical signal to generate a fourth optical signal, and transmitting the fourth optical signal through the second optical network. The first optical signal can include a first digital signal modulated onto a first light signal of a first wavelength, the second optical signal can include a second light signal can include a second wavelength different from the first wavelength, and the fourth optical signal can include the first digital signal modulated onto the second light signal. Other embodiments are disclosed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 31, 2020
    Date of Patent: January 4, 2022
    Assignee: AT&T Intellectual Property I, L.P.
    Inventors: Ricky Perry, Kent McCammon
  • Patent number: 11218758
    Abstract: Aspects of the subject disclosure may include, for example, a method including obtaining media content and an identification of a plurality of points of interest in the media content, receiving a request from a user to view the media content, obtaining information about the user, identifying one or more highlight and/or degrade points based on the information about the user, modifying the media content to create highlighted content, the highlighted content being the media content modified to attract attention of the user to the highlight point and drive the attention of the user away from the degrade point, presenting the highlighted content to the user, and monitoring the user's consumption of the content. Other embodiments are disclosed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 15, 2020
    Date of Patent: January 4, 2022
    Assignee: AT&T Intellectual Property I, L.P.
    Inventors: Raghuraman Gopalan, Zhu Liu, Behzad Shahraray, Eric Zavesky, Tan Xu
  • Patent number: 11218879
    Abstract: A method, computer-readable medium, and apparatus for classifying IP network traffic are disclosed. For example, a method may include a processor for applying a regularized probabilistic model to internet protocol network traffic for performing geolocation, wherein the internet protocol network traffic contains internet protocol address information, detecting an outlier in the internet protocol network traffic, wherein the outlier is associated with a transaction over a network, and performing a remedial action to address the outlier.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 5, 2018
    Date of Patent: January 4, 2022
    Assignee: AT&T INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY I, L.P.
    Inventors: Joshua Whitney, Meredith Ordway-West, Aarthi Reddy, Melissa Lee, Mukund Rao
  • Patent number: 11216668
    Abstract: Aspects of the subject disclosure may include, for example, analyzing media content to recognize an object therein, wherein the media content is provided as a video stream displayed to a user of a communication device, the media content comprising a plurality of digital frames transported to the communication device over a private network; associating product information of a product with the object; receiving a user input selecting the object; determining providers of goods or services of the product, wherein the providers of goods or services are selected during the determining based on a proximity of the providers to the user of the communication device; and providing the product information to the communication device. Other embodiments are disclosed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 10, 2020
    Date of Patent: January 4, 2022
    Assignee: AT&T Mobility II LLC
    Inventor: Manouchehr Bagheri
  • Patent number: 11216516
    Abstract: A method for searching for information in a relational database includes: identifying a subset of attributes from attributes for each record in the relational database, the subset of attributes including a plurality of search attributes and a plurality of search summary attributes; extracting the subset of identified attributes from each record; creating in a cloud-based non-relational database platform an index instance corresponding to each record in the relational database, wherein each index instance in the cloud-based non-relational database includes the subset of identified attributes indexed to a corresponding record in the relational database; and in response to receiving a search request that includes one or more search attributes, searching the index instances in the cloud-based non-relational database for corresponding records in the relational database; and providing search results that include information from corresponding records in the relational database, wherein the information is associated
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 8, 2018
    Date of Patent: January 4, 2022
    Assignee: AT&T INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY I, L.P.
    Inventors: Wei Yen, Olgica Hea, Seyed Hashemi, Linda Silence, Paul DePalma
  • Patent number: 11218245
    Abstract: The described technology is generally directed towards reporting channel quality information from a wireless user equipment to the network, in a channel state information report that includes channel quality information based on a block error rate threshold value that corresponds to an ultra-reliable low latency communication when the user equipment is in the ultra-reliable low latency communication mode. The channel quality information corresponding to the ultra-reliable low latency communication mode block error rate threshold and the channel quality information corresponding to the enhanced mobile broadband mode block error rate threshold can be included in the same report. Alternatively, the user equipment is instructed to report either the channel quality information for-reliable low latency communication or for enhanced mobile broadband in the channel state information report.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 5, 2020
    Date of Patent: January 4, 2022
    Assignee: AT&T Intellectual Property I, L.P.
    Inventors: SaiRamesh Nammi, Arunabha Ghosh
  • Patent number: 11216560
    Abstract: A method includes monitoring access by a first user to a first updating server and a second updating server, suspending access by the first user to the second updating server when the first user accesses the first updating server to load code updates to the first updating server, comparing a first code update from the first updating server and a second code update from the second updating server, and downloading the first code update based on the comparing step. The downloading step occurs only when the first code update and the second code update are identical.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 23, 2019
    Date of Patent: January 4, 2022
    Assignee: AT&T Intellectual Property I, L.P.
    Inventor: Joseph Soryal
  • Patent number: 11218404
    Abstract: A network diversity resolution system comprising: a diversity assessment tool, the diversity assessment tool including a path finding module and a sampling module that communicate with an input/output device; the path finding module communicates with an enterprise data warehouse; the path finding module configured to search through a network inventory stored in the enterprise data warehouse, the path finding module constructing a representation to identify at least two representative paths between a selected first end point and a second end point; wherein the at least two representative paths meets at least a capacity requirement between the first end point and the second end point; and wherein the sampling module generates at least one circuit reassignment plan based on the at least two representative paths, wherein the sampling module provides a score for each of the at least one circuit reassignment plan, wherein the score is based on at least one of a machine preference, path length, and number of changes
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 15, 2018
    Date of Patent: January 4, 2022
    Assignee: AT&T Intellectual Property I, L.P.
    Inventors: Vikram Samanna Vijayaraghavan, Michael Jensen
  • Publication number: 20210410227
    Abstract: Aspects of the subject disclosure may include, for example, detecting, by a wireless communication device, a transmission, by a radio access network node, of an alert message, identifying contents of the alert message, determining that the wireless communication device is authorized to relay the contents of the alert message, generating alert information comprising the contents of the alert message, and transmitting a ProSe direct discovery message comprising the alert information. Other embodiments are disclosed.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 29, 2020
    Publication date: December 30, 2021
    Applicant: AT&T Intellectual Property I, L.P.
    Inventors: Jasminka Dizdarevic, John Hursey, Sreejith Menon
  • Publication number: 20210408308
    Abstract: Aspects of the subject disclosure may include, for example, a photo detecting device that includes a bottom gate, a bilayer semiconductor formed on the bottom gate, and a top gate above the bilayer semiconductor comprising a polymer electrolyte. Other embodiments are disclosed.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 8, 2021
    Publication date: December 30, 2021
    Applicant: AT&T Intellectual Property I, L.P.
    Inventors: Yevgeniy Puzyrev, Sheldon Kent Meredith, William C. Cottrill
  • Publication number: 20210409799
    Abstract: Aspects of the subject disclosure may include, for example, a method that includes receiving, by a processing system including a processor, a pricing policy for streaming a media asset to a user; and recording, by the processing system, the pricing policy into a blockchain, wherein the pricing policy is used by a billing system to charge the user for streaming the media asset. Other embodiments are disclosed.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 10, 2021
    Publication date: December 30, 2021
    Applicant: AT&T Intellectual Property I, L.P.
    Inventors: John Manganilla, Gowrishankar Subramaniam Natarajan, Virgil L. Archer, III
  • Publication number: 20210410044
    Abstract: Aspects of the subject disclosure may include, for example, determining whether a past throughput of past traffic communicated between a communication device and a communication network meets a first threshold value, resulting in a first determination; responsive to the first determination being that the past throughput meets the first threshold, transmitting an instruction to the communication device to restrict a first subsequent throughput of first subsequent traffic to no greater than a second threshold value; determining whether the first subsequent throughput has been restricted, resulting in a second determination; and responsive to the second determination being that the first subsequent throughput has not been restricted, taking one or more actions to enforce a second subsequent throughput of second subsequent traffic to no greater than a third threshold value, wherein the third threshold value is lower than the second threshold value. Other embodiments are disclosed.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 12, 2021
    Publication date: December 30, 2021
    Applicants: AT&T Intellectual Property I, L.P., Cricket Wireless LLC
    Inventors: Sheldon Kent Meredith, Justin McNamara, Rajeev Garg, Mark Austin
  • Publication number: 20210405736
    Abstract: Aspects of the subject disclosure may include, for example, assembling an extended reality (XR) immersive experience for a user, determining a user experience level for the user, adjusting an immersion detail level for the XR immersive experience according to the user experience level, and communicating data defining the XR immersive experience to XR equipment of the user. Other embodiments are disclosed.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 30, 2020
    Publication date: December 30, 2021
    Applicants: AT&T Intellectual Property I, L.P., AT&T Mobility II LLC
    Inventors: Eric Zavesky, James Pratt, John Oetting, Jason Decuir, Terrel Lecesne
  • Publication number: 20210407272
    Abstract: Concepts and technologies are disclosed herein for a cross-reality safety service. A device can detect a cross-reality session associated with a user device. The cross-reality session can include a rendered environment and the user device can be located in a physical environment. Data associated with the cross-reality session can be obtained. It can be determined if a safety issue exists for the cross-reality session. If the safety issue is determined to exist for the cross-reality session, a communication can be directed to the user device, where the communication can include an update to the rendered environment, a command to end the cross-reality session, or an alert.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 29, 2020
    Publication date: December 30, 2021
    Applicant: AT&T Intellectual Property I, L.P.
    Inventors: James Jackson, Eric Zavesky, James Pratt
  • Publication number: 20210409901
    Abstract: Aspects of the subject disclosure may include, for example, a network device that comprises a processing system including a processor and a memory storing instructions that, when executed by the processing system, facilitate performance of operations. The operations include obtaining timing advance data regarding a communication device served by the network; the timing advance data is collected by a network element coupled to the network device, and the network element communicates with the communication device using control-plane signaling. The timing advance data is processed using location data regarding the network element to determine a geolocation of the communication device. The geolocation is stored at a storage device; the network device and storage device are included in a secure portion of the network. The geolocation is provided to equipment of a network customer accessing the secure portion of the network via a secure interface. Other embodiments are disclosed.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 26, 2020
    Publication date: December 30, 2021
    Applicants: AT&T Mobility II LLC, AT&T Intellectual Property I, L.P.
    Inventors: Jeff Bartlett, Jordan Alexander, Thomas Becker
  • Publication number: 20210407288
    Abstract: Aspects of the subject disclosure may include, for example, determining, by a system comprising a processor, a driver profile according to a driver identity for a driver of a vehicle, selecting a driver-specific enforcement scenario for the vehicle according to the driver profile and traffic enforcement information that is associated with a vehicle location, and presenting an in-vehicle alert to convey the driver-specific enforcement scenario to the driver. Other embodiments are disclosed.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 9, 2021
    Publication date: December 30, 2021
    Applicant: AT&T Intellectual Property I, L.P.
    Inventors: James G. Beattie, JR., Jesse Chan
  • Publication number: 20210409835
    Abstract: Aspects of the subject disclosure may include, for example, providing to a user device a video content item including at least one scene which includes a plurality of advertisement placement opportunities and determining a preference profile for an individual associated with the user device. Aspects further include selecting a group of matching advertisements having advertisement profiles that match the preference profile for the individual and determining a relative prominence score for each advertisement placement opportunity. Aspects further include ordering the matching advertisements according to prominence information specified for each matching advertisement, wherein the prominence information corresponds to a relative desired prominence specified by an advertiser associated with the matching advertisement.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 13, 2021
    Publication date: December 30, 2021
    Applicant: AT&T Intellectual Property I, L.P.
    Inventors: Alexander MacDougall, Anna Lidzba, Nigel Bradley, James Carlton Bedingfield, SR., Robert Koch, Ari Craine
  • Publication number: 20210406909
    Abstract: A method for authenticating a transaction includes: receiving, by a transaction processing unit of a computing system, a request for a transaction on a user account; generating, by the transaction processing unit, a personal identification number (PIN) and/or alert message; transmitting the PIN to a mobile device associated with the user account after a person requesting the transaction refuses authentication by a PIN-to-device process; and cancelling, by the transaction processing unit, the transaction when a response to the PIN and/or alert message is received from the mobile device within a specified period of time.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 7, 2021
    Publication date: December 30, 2021
    Applicant: AT&T Intellectual Property I, L.P.
    Inventor: Gary Smith
  • Publication number: 20210409802
    Abstract: Concepts and technologies are disclosed herein for providing streaming video from mobile computing nodes. A request for streaming video captured by a mobile computing node can be received at a computer including a processor that executes a controller. The request can include a parameter associated with the streaming video. The computer can initiate transmission of an inquiry message to two or more mobile computing nodes and receive inquiry message responses from the mobile computing nodes that include the mobile computing node. The inquiry message responses can indicate that the mobile computing nodes can satisfy the parameter. The computer can create a list of the mobile computing nodes that can satisfy the parameter and provide the list to the requestor. The computer can receive a selection of the mobile computing node, and initiate delivery of a video stream to the requestor.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 14, 2021
    Publication date: December 30, 2021
    Applicant: AT&T Intellectual Property I, L.P.
    Inventors: Brian S. Amento, Robert J. Hall, Kaustubh Joshi, Kermit Hal Purdy, Pamela Zave
  • Publication number: 20210409965
    Abstract: Aspects of the subject disclosure may include, for example, transmitting a first identifier associated with a processing system to a communication device, transmitting first data to the communication device, obtaining, from the communication device and based on the transmitting of the first identifier and the first data, a first directive, wherein the first directive directs the processing system to utilize a first radio access technology for a first communication session, and utilizing, based on the first directive, the first radio access technology for the first communication session. Other embodiments are disclosed.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 29, 2020
    Publication date: December 30, 2021
    Applicants: AT&T Intellectual Property I, L.P., AT&T Mobility II LLC
    Inventors: Zhi Cui, Sangar Dowlatkhah, Paul Edward Smith, JR.
  • Publication number: 20210409417
    Abstract: According to one aspect of the concepts and technologies disclosed herein, a role-based access control (“RBAC”) system can mark all granular roles in a granular role group as non-tested to create a non-tested granular role set. The RBAC system can randomly select a granular role from the non-tested granular role set. The RBAC system can assign both the non-tested granular role set and a tested-keep granular role set to the granular role group. Each granular role in the tested-keep granular role set has been tested an approved for inclusion in the complete granular role set. The RBAC system can determine whether a user assigned to the granular role group has access to a protected function. In response to determining that the user does not have access to the protected function, the RBAC system can mark the granular role for inclusion in the tested-keep granular role set.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 30, 2020
    Publication date: December 30, 2021
    Applicant: AT&T Intellectual Property I, L.P.
    Inventor: Dongdong Li
  • Publication number: 20210409734
    Abstract: Aspects of the subject disclosure may include, for example, a method that includes obtaining, by a processing system including a processor, video frames over a network; the processing system uses a machine learning algorithm to identify in each frame a first region comprising a natural image and a second region comprising a synthetic graphic image. The processing system separates the natural image from the synthetic graphic image to generate a natural video and a graphics video, encodes the natural video, and processes the graphics video to generate instructions for rendering graphic images at a client system. The client system performs a decoding procedure for the encoded video, a rendering procedure for client-side graphics in accordance with the instructions, and a compositing procedure to obtain a presentable video stream including the natural image and a client-side graphic corresponding to the synthetic graphic image. Other embodiments are disclosed.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 30, 2020
    Publication date: December 30, 2021
    Applicant: AT&T Mobility II LLC
    Inventor: Eric David Petajan
  • Patent number: 11210699
    Abstract: Aspects of the subject disclosure may include, for example, a method, operating at a processing system including a processor, can include receiving a reply message from a communication device responsive to a query signal and including audio information collected at a presentation area, determining consumer presence information at the presentation area according to the audio information collected at the presentation area, determining a probability of a consumer advertising experience according to the consumer presence information, selecting first advertising media from a set of advertising media according to the probability of consumer advertising engagement, and presenting the first advertising media to the presentation area via the presentation system. Other embodiments are disclosed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 18, 2018
    Date of Patent: December 28, 2021
    Assignee: AT&T Intellectual Property I, L.P.
    Inventors: Lakshminarashimhan Naidu, Thomas P. Benzaia, Bernard S. Ku
  • Patent number: 11210128
    Abstract: A processing system of a device having at least one processor may obtain a set of codes from a virtual machine orchestrator via a virtualization security controller of the processing system, obtain a first virtual machine configuration file from the virtual machine orchestrator via a hypervisor of the processing system, and pass at least one code of the set of codes from the virtualization security controller to the hypervisor. The processing system may then apply, via the hypervisor, a decryption to the first virtual machine configuration file using the at least one code, determine that a threshold percentage of content of the first virtual machine configuration file comprises dictionary-recognizable words in accordance with the decryption, and instantiate, via the hypervisor, a first virtual machine in accordance with the first virtual machine configuration file when it is determined that the threshold percentage of the content comprises dictionary-recognizable words.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 26, 2019
    Date of Patent: December 28, 2021
    Assignee: AT&T INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY I, L.P.
    Inventors: Dylan Reid, Joseph Soryal
  • Patent number: 11212710
    Abstract: A processing system may obtain values of carrier attributes for a new carrier to be deployed in a cellular network, obtain values of the carrier attributes and values of a configuration parameter for a plurality of existing carriers in the cellular network, and construct an attribute value matrix comprising the values of the carrier attributes for the plurality of existing carriers, where the attribute value matrix associates the carrier attributes to the plurality of existing carriers, apply a regression to a function associating the attribute value matrix to a vector of the values of the configuration parameter for the plurality of existing carriers to learn coefficients of the function, apply the coefficients to a vector comprising the values of the plurality of carrier attributes for the new carrier to generate a value of the configuration parameter for the new carrier, and apply the generated value to the new carrier.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 13, 2020
    Date of Patent: December 28, 2021
    Assignees: AT&T INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY I, L.P., AT&T MOBILITY II LLC
    Inventors: Ajay Mahimkar, Karunasish Biswas, Zihui Ge
  • Patent number: 11212161
    Abstract: The present disclosure describes methods, computer-readable media, and apparatuses supporting management and resolution of alarms of a communication network. In one example, management and resolution may include receiving a new alarm, determining an alarm resolution of the new alarm based on the new alarm and historical alarm information, and initiating an alarm resolution action for resolving the new alarm based on the alarm resolution of the new alarm. In one example, management and resolution may include maintaining historical alarm information for a set of historical alarms, receiving a new alarm, determining a set of similar alarms including one or more of the historical alarms similar to the new alarm, determining an alarm resolution for the new alarm based on the set of similar alarms similar to the new alarm, and initiating an alarm resolution action for resolving the new alarm based on the alarm resolution of the new alarm.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 11, 2020
    Date of Patent: December 28, 2021
    Assignee: AT&T INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY I, L.P.
    Inventor: Paul Giura
  • Patent number: 11212633
    Abstract: Aspects of the subject disclosure may include, for example, a method, comprising: receiving, by a media processor including a processor, spherical audiovisual media content from a content delivery network; rendering, by the media processor, video for a point of view in the spherical audiovisual media content at a display device coupled to the media processor; receiving, from a remote control device coupled to the media processor, a control signal panning the point of view, resulting in a new field of view; and generating, by the media processor, audio signals from the spherical audiovisual media content corresponding to the new field of view, wherein the audio signals are adapted to audio reproduction equipment coupled to the media processor. Other embodiments are disclosed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 16, 2020
    Date of Patent: December 28, 2021
    Assignee: AT&T Intellectual Property I, L.P.
    Inventor: Manuel Briand
  • Patent number: 11212251
    Abstract: Concepts and technologies pertaining to enabling internet protocol carrier peering to foreign network domains are provided. A method includes identifying, by a computer system executing within an originating carrier network, a plurality of numbering plan area identifiers corresponding to a receiving carrier network. The method further includes accessing, by the computer system executing within the originating carrier network based on the plurality of numbering plan area identifiers, a plurality of numbering plan area zone file records stored on a private enabled telephone number mapping server. The method also includes creating, by the computer system executing within the originating carrier network, a single instance of a name authority pointer record placeholder within each of the plurality of numbering plan area zone file records stored on the private enabled telephone number mapping server.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 14, 2020
    Date of Patent: December 28, 2021
    Assignee: AT&T Intellectual Property I, L.P.
    Inventors: Bernard S. Ku, Lakshminarashimhan Naidu, Andrew Jurczak
  • Patent number: 11212320
    Abstract: A network access credential can be shared among devices based on location information for a device. Location information can include timed fingerprint location information. In an aspect, location information can be associated with a location of user equipment. This location information can be correlated with network access credentials. Location information can be used to access a relevant network access credential. The relevant network access credential can be shared with other devices. In an embodiment, sharing a network access credential can be between mobile devices. In another embodiment, sharing a network access credential can be between a remote computing device and a mobile device. Sharing a credential can allow for access to a network without having to generate or input new credentials.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 27, 2020
    Date of Patent: December 28, 2021
    Assignees: AT&T Mobility II LLC, AT&T INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY I, L.P.
    Inventors: Rick Tipton, Mark Austin, Mario Kosseifi, Mostafa Tofighbakhsh
  • Patent number: 11212022
    Abstract: The described technology is generally directed towards sharing a radio by multiple subscriber identities at a device. A time division multiplexing pattern at the device radio gives primary radio use to a first subscriber identity, while also providing time windows for radio use to a second subscriber identity. In response to a communication by the second subscriber identity, the time division multiplexing pattern can be changed to give the primary radio use to the second subscriber identity. Also, a radio resource control protocol can designate appropriate states for the different subscriber identities, designating the subscriber identity with primary radio use as connected, while the other subscriber identity is designated as inactive or idle.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 12, 2020
    Date of Patent: December 28, 2021
    Assignee: AT&T Intellectual Property I, L.P.
    Inventors: Milap Majmundar, Ralf Bendlin, Thomas Novlan, Xiaoyi Wang, Arunabha Ghosh
  • Patent number: 11212137
    Abstract: A sub-system is described which is operative to be used as a virtual Provider Edge (v PE) cluster of an SDN communication system. The sub-system comprises a plurality of network elements, wherein the v PE cluster further comprises one or more virtual routing engines for routing traffic to/from the plurality of network elements, the one or more virtual routing engines are configured to communicate with a managing entity and with a plurality of virtual forwarding engines, and wherein the managing entity is configured to manage operation of the one or more virtual routing engines and the plurality of virtual forwarding engines. According to another aspect, the sub-system comprises a plurality of network elements and a managing entity, wherein the network elements having each one or more ports to convey traffic therethrough, and wherein at least one of the ports associated with the sub-system is configured to serve a plurality of customers.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 22, 2018
    Date of Patent: December 28, 2021
    Assignees: DRIVENETS LTD., AT&T SERVICES, INC.
    Inventors: Amir Krayden, Yuval Moshe, Anton Gartsbein, Gal Zolkover
  • Patent number: 11212858
    Abstract: The same or similar physical signals can be used for both user equipment (UE) and an integrate access backhaul (IAB) node. Different configurations of the resources and/or transmission periods of the signals can be used for initial access for access UEs and IAB nodes. In addition, to support topology formation, mobility/multi-connectivity procedures, and backhaul link management, periodic measurements and reports can be configured by a parent IAB node to a child IAB node UE function. This can comprise radio resource management (RRM), radio link monitoring (RLM), and beam management (L1-BM) measurements and reports.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 7, 2020
    Date of Patent: December 28, 2021
    Assignee: AT&T INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY I, L.P.
    Inventors: Thomas Novlan, Arunabha Ghosh, Salam Akoum, Xiaoyi Wang
  • Patent number: 11212289
    Abstract: A method includes receiving, at an access point, an access request from a first device after an expiration of a first passcode. The access request is encrypted based on the first passcode. The method includes making a determination by the access point before an expiration of a usage time of a first passcode usage list that an identifier of the first device is included in the first passcode usage list. The method also includes, in response to making the determination, generating, at the access point, data representing a second passcode by encrypting the second passcode using the first passcode; and sending the data representing the second passcode from the access point to the first device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 28, 2020
    Date of Patent: December 28, 2021
    Assignees: AT&T Intellectual Property I, L.P., AT&T MOBILITY II LLC
    Inventors: Sheldon Kent Meredith, William Cottrill, Brandon B. Hilliard
  • Patent number: 11212661
    Abstract: Aspects of the subject disclosure may include, for example, obtaining a first access point name (APN) value from a storage device, transmitting a first message that includes the first APN value to a mobility management entity (MME), receiving a second message subsequent to the transmitting of the first message, wherein the second message includes a second APN value that is different from the first APN value, and causing the second APN value to be stored in the storage device. Other embodiments are disclosed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 13, 2020
    Date of Patent: December 28, 2021
    Assignee: AT&T Intellectual Property I, L.P.
    Inventors: Weidong Allen Hu, Jiansong Wang, Inderpreet Singh Ahluwalia
  • Patent number: 11210824
    Abstract: Aspects of the subject disclosure may include, for example, a method of transforming, by a processing system comprising a processor, text comprising a series of characters into a graphic representation, wherein the graphic representation comprises a series of dots arranged in a two-dimensional pattern, wherein the two-dimensional pattern comprises two dots per character, and wherein each dot in the series of dots is one unit away from a preceding dot; and plotting, by the processing system, the series of dots on a two-dimensional graph, thereby creating a unique encoded image of the text. Other embodiments are disclosed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 21, 2020
    Date of Patent: December 28, 2021
    Assignee: AT&T Intellectual Property I, L.P.
    Inventor: Changchuan Yin
  • Patent number: 11212591
    Abstract: Concepts and technologies for video alternate network access points and receivers that enable wireless delivery of video content to multiple customer premises over a service area are provided herein. In an embodiment, a system includes a satellite dish receiver that is configured to receive a satellite video feed, and a video alternate network access point that is communicatively coupled to the satellite dish receiver. The video alternate network access point can perform operations that ingest the satellite video feed directly from the satellite dish receiver. The operations can activate a microcell transceiver embedded within the video alternate network access point, and identify a multicast-broadcast single-frequency network channel. The operations can then transmit, to a video alternate network receiver device from the microcell transceiver, the satellite video feed over at least the multicast-broadcast single-frequency network channel.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 26, 2021
    Date of Patent: December 28, 2021
    Assignee: AT&T Intellectual Property I, L.P.
    Inventors: Barrett Kreiner, Ryan Schaub
  • Patent number: 11211974
    Abstract: Aspects of the subject disclosure may include, for example, a surveying system operable to receive a plurality of electromagnetic waves via a guided wave transceiver that include environmental data collected via a plurality of sensors at a plurality of remote sites. Weather pattern data is generated based on the environmental data. Other embodiments are disclosed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 4, 2019
    Date of Patent: December 28, 2021
    Assignee: AT&T Intellectual Property I, L.P.
    Inventors: Ken Liu, Robert Bennett, Pamela A. M. Bogdan, Farhad Barzegar, Donald J. Barnickel, Irwin Gerszberg
  • Patent number: 11212181
    Abstract: A processing system including at least one processor may obtain first network analytics data from a plurality of zones of a telecommunication network, generate a set of policies from the first network analytics data via an apriori algorithm, where each policy in the set of policies comprises a pattern matching rule, and deploy policies of the set of policies to a plurality of edge devices in respective zones of the plurality of zones of the telecommunication network. The processing system may further receive, from at least one of the plurality of edge devices in one of the plurality of zones, a first alert of a first policy trigger of a first policy of the set of policies, and transmit a notification to a software defined network controller of the first policy trigger.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 13, 2020
    Date of Patent: December 28, 2021
    Assignee: AT&T INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY I, L.P.
    Inventors: Moshiur Rahman, Robert D. Boudreau, Jr., Narayan Sahoo
  • Patent number: 11212726
    Abstract: Determining to initiate a user equipment handover event based on a signal-to-interference-plus-noise ratio value is disclosed. The disclosed subject matter can employ the signal-to-interference-plus-noise ratio value in lieu of a reference signal receive power value. In an aspect, a handover based on the signal-to-interference-plus-noise ratio value can generally be determined faster and with greater reliability than basing the handover on the reference signal receive power value. In an aspect, some embodiments can substitute a determined uplink signal-to-interference-plus-noise ratio value for a downlink signal-to-interference-plus-noise ratio value. In some embodiments, a predicted signal-to-interference-plus-noise ratio value can be determined based on historical channel characteristics, hysterical wireless network environment features, or other historical data.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 23, 2019
    Date of Patent: December 28, 2021
    Assignees: AT&T Intellectual Property I, L.P., AT&T MOBILITY II LLC
    Inventors: Jianchun Zhou, Sameer Sangal
  • Patent number: 11212768
    Abstract: The technologies described herein are generally directed to facilitating operation of a system for implementing fifth generation (5G) or other next generation networks. In accordance with one or more embodiments, a method described herein can include identifying, by a device comprising a processor, predicted resource usage of a first antenna covering a geographic zone. Further, the method can include selecting, by the device, a group of geographic siting locations within the geographic zone for potentially siting ones of a group of second antennas. In addition, selecting, by the device, a spatial arrangement in relation to the first antenna, of a subset of the group of geographic siting locations can occur, with a selected spatial arrangement including an arrangement to maintain the predicted resource usage in the condition.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 2, 2020
    Date of Patent: December 28, 2021
    Assignee: AT&T Intellectual Property I, L.P.
    Inventors: Yuning Yang, Jie Chen, Wenjie Zhao
  • Patent number: 11212173
    Abstract: A system that determines whether a trigger has occurred within a cloud infrastructure. The system, in response to determining that a trigger has occurred, extracts characteristics from one or more virtual network functions (VNFs) of a service chain. The system, in response to extracting characteristics from the one or more VNFs, determines rehoming actions for each of the one or more VNFs. The system, in response to determining rehoming actions, predicts a rehoming delay or a chain downtime for each of the rehoming actions for each of the one or more VNFs. The system determines an optimal rehoming action from the rehoming actions for at least one of the one or more VNFs using the rehoming delay or the chain downtime for each rehoming action of the rehoming actions. The system performs the optimal rehoming action for the at least one of one or more VNFs.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 12, 2019
    Date of Patent: December 28, 2021
    Assignees: AT&T Intellectual Property I, L.P., The Research Foundation for the State University of New York
    Inventors: Shankaranarayanan Puzhavakath Narayanan, Bharath Balasubramanian, Gueyoung Jung, Muhammad Wajahat, Anshul Gandhi
  • Patent number: 11210336
    Abstract: Methods, systems, and products help users recall memories and search for content of those memories. When a user cannot recall a memory, the user is prompted with questions to help recall the memory. As the user answers the questions, a virtual recollection of the memory is synthesized from the answers to the questions. When the user is satisfied with the virtual recollection of the memory, a database of content may be searched for the virtual recollection of the memory. Video data, for example, may be retrieved that matches the virtual recollection of the memory. The video data is thus historical data documenting past events.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 28, 2019
    Date of Patent: December 28, 2021
    Assignee: AT&T Intellectual Property I, L.P.
    Inventors: Kevin A. Li, Troy C. Meuninck, Robert Raymond Miller, II, James H. Pratt, Horst J. Schroeter, Behzad Shahraray
  • Patent number: 11212778
    Abstract: A more efficient network can be achieved using channel allocation strategies within a wireless network. A network device can receive several data points from a mobile device including resource request data, access condition data, and location data. Once the network device has received the aforementioned data points, the network device can identify channels that are conducive to a heightened quality of service for a resource being requested based on a signal attenuation associated with the channel. The network device can then facilitate a channel selection in response to an assessment of the data points and identifying a channel for the resource.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 2, 2020
    Date of Patent: December 28, 2021
    Assignees: AT&T Intellectual Property I, L.P., AT&T Mobility II LLC
    Inventors: Kurt Huber, Jerome Hetrick, Thomas W. Henderson, Hristo Hristov
  • Patent number: 11210700
    Abstract: Aspects of the subject disclosure may include, for example, a method including receiving advertisements from a remote advertising content provider and pre-loading the advertisements at a communication device. An advertisement is selected for presentation at a presentation device, based on a user's advertising viewing history, the duration of the advertisement, the device location, the device environment, the user's demographic profile, or the user's activities. The presentation device presents the advertisement responsive to the trigger message. The effectiveness of the advertisement is determined, and the advertisement viewing history is updated; the advertisement is selected based in part on the effectiveness of a past presentation of the advertisement. Other embodiments are disclosed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 13, 2020
    Date of Patent: December 28, 2021
    Assignees: AT&T Intellectual Property I, L.P., AT&T Mobility II LLC
    Inventors: James G. Beattie, Jr., Jeffrey A. Krinsky